Cardiff Council and Llandaff North Residents' Association have a show garden at the RHS show Cardiff 2012. Afterwards, the garden will be moved to its permanent site in Llandaff North.

10 April 2012

Can you tell what it is yet?

I hope so, because it's more or less finished (though this
wasn't actually discussed!). I assume it is, because it's being
dismantled on Friday and loaded up ready to be shipped to the show site
on Saturday, oooh, about 300m away! Once in situ, the hard landscaping, planting etc will be added.

I cycled down to the nursery again today after the Easter break (which was spent working my day job, which thankfully means I get this week off - thanks Linda!)

Colin and John were making our wooden noticeboard which looked good, topped off with some oak kindly found for us by the one of the council woodland team, Richard Cornock, who I'm hoping is going to engrave something suitable on it: 'Llandaff North Community Noticeboard' if it fits (and Colin remembers, because I didn't write it down!)

Still waiting for the streetlight to be acquired from the council highways dept. That sounds bad. We aren't stealing it - it's an old one they won't be using again.

Just an example of things left for me to do

Sort out the show garden signage ie design, print and find an A3 laminator

Email the leaflet information to our sponsors Brett, ready to be printed

Clean up/paint the lectern and leaflet holder

Finish painting the mural

Send out a press release

Try and make sense of a planting plan!

Pick up the plants

....and that's about a third of it!

Two of our LNRA committee, Del and Ian, are getting married on Saturday (and postponing their wedding so they can attend the show!), so I need to fit in a haircut and shopping trip for something to wear too.

Welcome!

Have you ever wondered how an RHS show garden is put together, and all the trials and tribulations it involves? Well hopefully this blog will give you an insight into such a project.

At the end if 2011, LNRA submitted a joint application with Cardiff Council for the RHS Cardiff spring show 2012. This blog will chart the count-down to the show on April 20-22 2012.Good luck to everyone involved!